Embracing Endings: James Sexton on Life, Death, Love, and Powerful Relationship Negotiation | Part 2

Welcome back to part two of this incredible conversation. Without further ado, here we go. What's the most controversial thing that you believe that you're like, oh, god. This one is so true. Clip that gets me canceled. People up. Is this the is this the You'll never get canceled. You're too good at what you do. I know. That's the best thing about it. Yeah. Thank god. I have to tell you, thank god I have a profession I'm really good at because it's the only way I haven't gotten killed for the stuff that I say. Because, you know, early on in my career, some of my colleagues or not early on in my media career, I should say. Like, I was already a very established attorney for the last twenty five years, and I only really started the media thing, like, two years ago. And some of my colleagues were like, are you are you afraid this is gonna screw up your legal brand? I was like, not at all. Like, I'm just great in a courtroom. Like, that's at the end of the day. Like, people don't care. Like, if I listen. I'm like a progressive person. But if I needed, like, a very specialized surgery, and they said, look. This guy, he's the best guy in the world at this surgery, but he's racist. I'd be like, I want him to do this surgery. Like, I wanna have dinner with him. I'm not friends with him. Like, is he really good at the surgery? Cool. Like, just do the surgery, man. Like, the same thing for me. Like, I don't worry about but the hottest take I have on relationship, it it's all gonna be gender based stuff because gender stuff is so fraught right now. It's so fraught right now. Well, it is crazy to me, but I get it. I don't. Like, just don't help me understand. I think it is absurd. I think people are shooting themselves in the face, or to use your language, they're stepping on the rake over and over and over. But you don't think that it was born of good intentions? Like, I really believe that some of this stuff was born of good intentions. Fine. I literally don't care. My thing is what works. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're you're I I get that you're, like, outcome focused, and you're also, like, I want to look at the truth. I don't wanna like, what I wish was true. Like, I don't live in this should. Like, oh, well, it shouldn't be this way. Okay. Whatever it shouldn't be. Like, it is. Right. This is what it is. Correct. You know? So I I totally get that, but I think we have to if we're gonna, like, function as a culture. Maybe it's because I argue for a living. Like, I'm very interested in understanding why other people feel the way they feel. Like, people I …